Career Guide

Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure

Thinking about applying to graduate school? Getting read to go on the market?  This new $2 ebook may provide some helpful advice: Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure. 

From the Publisher: Get the inside scoop on graduate school and the tenure track. This no-nonsense guide gives you blunt advice about everything from admissions to dissertations to getting tenure. Filled with concrete strategies for surviving graduate school while keeping your sanity. 

And of course, you can read our guide for graduate students, Scaling the Ivory Tower, for free. The guide includes words of wisdom from Mike Munger, Dave Schmidtz, Matt Zwolinski and James Stacey Taylor.

The Job Hunt

The Job Hunt

A Liberty Guide Career Guide.

By Amy Pelletier

While hiring practices differ among industries, some skills are important in almost any job hunt: writing a good resume and cover letter, interviewing effectively, and networking.

Carden and Coyne on Academic Publishing

Liveblogging from the Career Development Seminar

Advice on Publishing:

- Grad school is the transition from being a consumer of scholarship to a producer. That product is original scholarship.

- Each discipline has its own emphasis on writing and different types of publishing. Be aware of what your field expects.

- Pick something that's doable. Write a dissertation, not a treatise.

Various Types of Research Paper Strategies:

1. The Small Twist - a new tweak on an existing idea. Lower impact, but a way to build up publications.

Scholarly Publication Bibliographic Guide

IHS librarian Elaine Hawley has put together this useful bibliographic guide to scholarly publishing.  The list includes books and articles on writing, citation, research, online publishing, discipline-specific topics and more.


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